Primary science in Fiji: Some reflections on activity-based lessons

Title
Primary science in Fiji: Some reflections on activity-based lessons
Publication Date
1992
Author(s)
Taylor, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-319X
Email: ntaylor6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ntaylor6
Macpherson, Colin
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation, Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics
Place of publication
Malaysia
UNE publication id
une:23288
Abstract
Despite a tradition of rote learning in primary science, many teachers in Fiji attempt to provide activity-based lessons for their pupils. However, the way in which teachers direct these activities offers their pupils little opportunity to develop their intellectual skills and develops a dependency on the teacher which is difficult to break. The authors suggest that this problem is much broader than in just science teaching, and is much deeper than simply a teacher-training issue. They discuss the problem by first drawing on some classroom observations, then by theorizing that the problem is the result of a dominant cultural trait, and finally by proposing the main features of any program that aims at resolving the problem
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Citation
Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 15(2), p. 40-44
ISSN
0126-7663
Start page
40
End page
44

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